Chapter 30: Dance of Death
The self-absorbed Clarence slowly closed his eyes, his withered and transparent hands waving like wings in the air, and the ancient soul floated to the ceiling of the library as the air currents rose rapidly from the ground. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć Info books surrounded him and ran quickly around the room, melodious music gradually sounding around him.
Andy was stunned for a moment, and he actually moved left and right on the ground to the rhythm. Clarence opened his eyes to the dancing boy, a satisfied smile on his lips, and Andy finished his first lesson in his life after a burst of laughter.
On the way out of the library, Andy kept reminiscing about the pleasant lesson just now, and he slowly realized that Clarence was really a good teacher, and he did not ridicule and belittle himself because he had no cultural foundation, but carefully made a study plan according to his illiteracy weaknesses, and educated himself from shallow to deep according to the existing books.
Andy walks through the basement to get back to the hall when Naughty runs over. The snow beast, which had not seen its owner for a long time, shook its head and wagged its tail rapidly, and Andy happily picked it up and spun quickly in the temple. Dylan sensed something unusual and came to the hall, where he saw Andy dancing merrily, but dancing to death on the smooth ground. This is a hypnotic magic unique to the Ancient Soul, which allows the living to forget their troubles for a while, but as the dancer gradually relies on this enchanting dance step, he will go to the brink of death, and the soul will be absorbed by the giver of the dance step.
Dylan quickly rushed forward and grabbed Andy's right hand and asked, "Where did you learn this dance move?" Andy was originally intoxicated by a beautiful dream, but was dragged back by Dylan, he looked at Dylan with a blurred eye and said, "I ......." He was about to tell Clarence the truth, but he covered his mouth with his left hand, and his flushed face made him look very unnatural.
Dylan crouched down and patiently explained the dangers of the death dance to Andy, and Andy, who had regained his senses, breathed a sigh of relief, and then he told the truth about the encounter with the ancient soul in the library. Dylan was relieved to hear Clarence's name, and then he told Andy, "Maybe this dance move can allow Clarence to suck someone else's soul, but it won't work for you." In the future, you can only follow him to learn the knowledge in the books, and never follow him to study ghost magic, otherwise the seeds of darkness in you will sprout again. Andy nodded repeatedly.
Clarence leads Andy in the death dance in the library every day, but this wise but ill-intentioned ancient soul actually feels an unprecedented sense of fear when he absorbs Andy's soul. He struggled to guess the cause of the fear, and he had suspected that Andy had secretly hidden the naughty somewhere in the library, and when his search was fruitless, he gave up the idea. But he began to suspect that the seemingly loyal little boy seemed to be hiding a secret that no one else knew. In short, Clarence did not get a little breath of the living in Andy's body, but the only remaining soul essence in his body gradually lost with close contact with Andy.
Andy's learning has progressed so rapidly that even Harris is constantly wondering why Andy, who is illiterate, can read an ancient book in a short time, and can write his own study notes based on the magic described in the book. But he never discovered Clarence's existence.
After dinner, Harris quietly followed Andy to the library, wanting to see how the little boy was learning. As he watched Andy read aloud to the air, the old magician was stunned.
Andy was floating with a giant demon floating around him, his gaping jaws sucking up the essence of all the books around him. Next to Andy, a wizened soul was still looking at the little boy who was engrossed in his studies with a longing look that revealed a longing for life and a yearning for eternal life.
Harris was about to step forward to stop him but was pressed on the shoulder by a hand behind him, and he looked back at the person behind him in surprise, it turned out to be Dylan. He was about to speak when Dylan covered his mouth with his hand.
Dylan took Harris back to the hall, and the stubborn old man asked puzzled, "Why don't you let me rescue Andy?" Dylan smiled and said, "It's not Andy who should be rescued, it's Clarence." Harris asked curiously, "Who is Clarence?" and Dylan told Harris about his fall from the Tower of Time to the Abyss and his encounter with Clarence.
As the ruins of the Tower of Time fell off a cliff, Dylan was protected by a strange creature and made it safely to the abyss. What rescued Dylan was the black energy that was constantly surging in the depths of the abyss, the black energy in the shape of a python constantly absorbing the essence of the ancient soul.
The temple was originally surrounded by the Forgotten City, where the ancient souls lived carefree. But with the fall of the Tower of Time, the Forgotten City's foundations were completely destroyed, and these ancient spirits began to travel to the temple, where they built a protective shield and lived there.
"I'm an outsider, but their original death dance doesn't hurt me or drain my soul at all, but instead gives me the best of my life for free," Dylan said. With this secret revealed, all the Ancient Souls chose to go to the depths of the Abyss. Unexpectedly, their fragile bodies were devoured by a god called Jacob in the Abyss, and the escaped Elder Souls returned to the Temple, and that Clarence was one of the Elder Souls. He deliberately told me the location of the library, and Mao proposed himself to be my teacher, but I was injected with black energy by the Dark Magic Book, and instead of succeeding, he was absorbed by me. The most ridiculous thing is that he also taught Andy to dance the death dance, which is to accelerate the speed of his own essence loss, because the black energy in Andy's body is even more terrifying than the black energy of Jacob in the Abyss, but he just doesn't know it. ā
As soon as Dylan finished speaking, there was a sudden commotion outside the temple, and all the sea beasts, including the little naughty, howled.